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Descriptor English: Deficiency Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades Carenciales
Descriptor enfermedades carenciales
Scope note: Afecciones producidas por deficiencias metabólicas o dietéticas. El término comprende todas las enfermedades causadas por aporte insuficiente de nutrientes esenciales, como proteínas (o aminoácidos), vitaminas y minerales. También se incluye el aporte inadecuado de calorías. (Traducción libre del original: Dorland, 27th ed; Stedman, 25th ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Deficiências Nutricionais
Descriptor French: Maladies de carence
Entry term(s): Carences nutritionnelles
Déficits nutritionnels
Maladies par carence alimentaire
Tree number(s): C18.654.521.500
SP6.990.625.344.378
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003677
Scope note: A condition produced by dietary or metabolic deficiency. The term includes all diseases caused by an insufficient supply of essential nutrients, i.e., protein (or amino acids), vitamins, and minerals. It also includes an inadequacy of calories. (From Dorland, 27th ed; Stedman, 25th ed)
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer /defic with specific Category D terms; do not confuse with NUTRITION DISORDERS: DEFICIENCY DISEASES results from deficient intake
Allowable Qualifiers: BL sang
CF liquide cérébrospinal
CI induit chimiquement
CL classification
CN congénital
CO complications
DG imagerie diagnostique
DH diétothérapie
DI diagnostic
DT traitement médicamenteux
EC économie
EH ethnologie
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
EP épidémiologie
ET étiologie
GE génétique
HI histoire
IM immunologie
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
MO mortalité
NU soins infirmiers
PA anatomopathologie
PC prévention et contrôle
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
PX psychologie
RH rééducation et réadaptation
RT radiothérapie
SU chirurgie
TH thérapie
UR urine
VE médecine vétérinaire
VI virologie
DeCS ID: 3690
Unique ID: D003677
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Maladies de carence - Preferred
Concept UI M0005753
Preferred term Maladies de carence
Entry term(s) Carences nutritionnelles
Déficits nutritionnels
Maladies par carence alimentaire



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